Fields of Isolation
Documentary Essay Photographing the Unseen Struggles of North Wales Farmers
Over the last few months, I’ve been sitting with a question that won’t let go: What does silence look like?
In the countryside, it often looks like peace — open skies, soft hills, the distant sound of sheep. But for many farmers across North Wales, silence has another edge: loneliness, pressure, and emotional exhaustion that rarely gets spoken aloud.
My next project, Fields of Isolation, will explore these hidden realities.
It will be a year-long photographic documentary focusing on the numerous challenges faced by farmers in our communities — the men and women who feed us, often while carrying invisible burdens of stress, solitude, and stigma.
Through portraiture, environmental photography, and shared words (some anonymous, some spoken plainly), I hope to create space for these stories — not as case studies or statistics, but as real, human lives.
This isn’t just about farming. It’s about dignity, resilience, and what happens when we listen — really listen — to the people behind the gates and hedgerows.
As someone who was raised on a small holding, I have some insight into the challenges that todays men and women who work the land face. I’ll be working slowly and sensitively and always in the subjects best interest . If you’re a farmer, or know someone who’d be open to speaking with me, please get in touch.
You can follow the project’s development on this blog, and I’ll be sharing some early images and reflections in the coming months.